The End Of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost In A World Of Constant Connection - Plot & Excerpts
(The town in question is Kampung Kibbas.) One daughter: Linda Jimi, interview with and e-mail message to author, January 17, 2013. Part 1: Gathering “We think we have discovered”: Maurice Maeterlinck, “La morale mystique,” in The Treasure of the Humble, trans. Alfred Sutro (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1903), 61–62. Chapter 1: This Kills That “Technology is neither good nor bad”: Melvin Kranzberg, “Technology and History: ‘Kranzberg’s Laws,’” Technology and Culture 27, no. 3 (1986): 544–60. a kind of foundational myth: I’m using the broader sense of “myth” here, as defined by Roland Barthes in his 1957 book Mythologies (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1957). “once people get used”: Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan, iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 18. “In the short run”: Ibid., 19. the printing machine itself: Stephan Füssel, “Gutenberg and Today’s Media Change,” Publishing Research Quarterly 16, no.
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